Make Better Decisions: How to Think Less and Decide More

by Claire Díaz-Ortiz

I’ve never had a problem I couldn’t solve.

(Yeah right.)

Every day, problems come knocking down my door, seeking a kind-hearted fairy with good common sense and laser-sharp foresight to resolve them. Sadly, said fairy never does seem to appear, and I’m always left tasked to deal with my own dilemmas.

I’d venture to guess you’re a lot like me. Sometimes you wish that someone else would make some of the decisions you have sitting on your plate, and give you a Snow Day so you could sip on hot cocoa and ponder the snowflakes.

In real life, we’ve all got responsibilities, and one of the greatest responsibilities we have is to make the decisions we need to keep our life on track.

In this collection, I’ve tinkered, edited, and brought together some of the best posts I’ve written at ClaireDiazOrtiz.com on the subject of decision-making. My aim in this ebook is to show a broad spectrum of ideas on how to best get down and dirty with the art of making great decisions, day in and day out.

This ebook is a call to arms -- for happy, smart decisions!

22 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 6, 2013

About the author

Claire Diaz-Ortiz is an author, speaker, advisor and startup investor who has been named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company. Claire was an early employee at Twitter, where she was hired to lead corporate social innovation.

In Claire's work, she has been called everything from "The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter" (Wired) and "Twitter's Pontiff Recruitment Chief" (The Washington Post) to a "Force for Good" (Forbes) and "One of the Most Generous People in Social Media" (Fast Company). As CNN said in 2017, "If Twitter has a soul, it probably looks something like Claire Diaz-Ortiz."

Claire is the award-winning author of nine books that have been translated into more than ten languages, including One Minute Mentoring: How to Find and Work with a Mentor - and How You'll Benefit from Being One (with Ken Blanchard) , Social Media Success for Every Brand: The Five Pillars that Turn Posts into Profits, Twitter for Good: Change the World One Tweet at a Time, Design Your Day: Be More Productive, Set Better Goals, and Live Life on Purpose, and Hope Runs: An American Tourist, a Kenyan Boy, a Journey of Redemption.

She is a frequent international speaker on business and social innovation and has been invited to deliver keynotes and trainings at organizations like the US State Department, Toyota, South by Southwest, TEDX, and many others.

She writes a column at Inc. Magazine online and is a LinkedIn Influencer, one of a select group of several hundred global leaders chosen to provide original content on the LinkedIn platform.

Claire holds an MBA from Oxford University, where she was a Skoll Foundation Scholar for Social Entrepreneurship, and has a B.A. and an M.A. in Anthropology from Stanford University.

She is the co-founder of Hope Runs, a non-profit organization operating in AIDS orphanages in Kenya.

She has appeared widely in major television and print news sources such as CNN, BBC, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, Good Morning America, The Today Show, The Washington Post, Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, and many others.